To obtain one of the first iPhone 4 smartphones for teardown, Kyle of the iFixit team flew to Japan with a tent, planning to camp out in front of the Ginza Apple Store. FedEx ended up delivering early shipments to some users two days in advance, making the trip unnecessary.

The teardown posted by iFixit of an early delivery reveals the new model's A4 application processor with 512MB of RAM, the new Retina Display, dual front and rear cameras, a secondary mic for noise canceling, an oversized new battery, and custom gyroscope which along with the accelerometer provides full six-axis motion control.

The two rear exposed Phillips screws now release the back panel rather than the front glass, a design that "makes replacing the rear panel trivial, but unfortunately means that replacing the front glass will likely be rather challenging," iFixit says.

Inside the back panel, the larger new 3.7V 1420 mAh Li-Polymer battery consumes all available space, while the new 5 megapixel still camera (capable of 720p, 30 fps video capture) anchors one corner and the vibration motor holds down the other.

The logic board packs Apple's A4 application processor, a "new 3-axis gyroscope that we believe is designed and manufactured by STMicro" and not yet commercially available, STMicro's 33DH 3-axis accelerometer, and an Apple-branded Cirrus Logic 338S0589 audio codec that is also used in iPad.

Digging deeper into the stainless steel body, iFixit pulled the top mic used for noise cancelation to quiet ambient sounds, the front facing VGA camera used for FaceTime video chat, and the primary mic used in the mouthpiece.

Everything so tiny... I can't even nicely do the cable management when building a PC, let alone laying all that out so elegantly.

They really seem to be pushing the limits of current technology with this revision. Maybe it will be 2 years before there's another big redesign. Therefore maybe next year they can focus on the Mac a little more, while they wait for the portable tech to advance a bit. Maybe release OS X 10.7, or have a GUI redesign, or start using SSDs more widely. It will be quite futile trying to improve iPhone hardware for a while.

Ahh very impressive Grasshopper, now to master the art of Apple origami you must rebuild iPhone.

*Voice off screen giving narration*

Can you rebuild it? We have the technology. We have the capability to build the world's first bionic phone. iPhone 4 will be that phone. We can make it better than it was before. Better, stronger, faster.

Everything so tiny... I can't even nicely do the cable management when building a PC, let alone laying all that out so elegantly.

They really seem to be pushing the limits of current technology with this revision. Maybe it will be 2 years before there's another big redesign. Therefore maybe next year they can focus on the Mac a little more, while they wait for the portable tech to advance a bit. Maybe release OS X 10.7, or have a GUI redesign, or start using SSDs more widely. It will be quite futile trying to improve iPhone hardware for a while.

I hope you're right \

I, on the other hand, am a little more pessimistic, the way things are heading
I'm beginning to wonder if we'll ever see a new Mac Pro \\

Ahh very impressive Grasshopper, now to master the art of Apple origami you must rebuild iPhone.

*Voice off screen giving narration*

Can you rebuild it? We have the technology. We have the capability to build the world's first bionic phone. iPhone 4 will be that phone. We can make it better than it was before. Better, stronger, faster.

You will and MUST learn the way of The Hoff - small (and often drunk) one

Ahh very impressive Grasshopper, now to master the art of Apple origami you must rebuild iPhone.

*Voice off screen giving narration*

Can you rebuild it? We have the technology. We have the capability to build the world's first bionic phone. iPhone 4 will be that phone. We can make it better than it was before. Better, stronger, faster.

EDIT: EDIT: Don't make fun of fat drunk people, they may just knock on your front door one day!

EDIT: EDIT: Don't make fun of fat drunk people, they may just knock on your front door one day!

Funny story. I lived in a old-but nice neighborhood where the homes where very close together and looked very similar.

At least once every year or two I would have a drunk show up (around 2:30 A.M.) wondering why his key didn't work and what was I doing in his house. They would argue up and down how I was in their house even though the furniture in the front room didn't match. Threatening to call the law would usually sober them up enough to walk away and reconsider.

... The two rear exposed Phillips screws now release the back panel rather than the front glass, a design that "makes replacing the rear panel trivial, but unfortunately means that replacing the front glass will likely be rather challenging," iFixit says. ...

So, I find it interesting that these clowns made no note of this particular design feature.

They really seem to be pushing the limits of current technology with this revision. Maybe it will be 2 years before there's another big redesign. Therefore maybe next year they can focus on the Mac a little more, while they wait for the portable tech to advance a bit. Maybe release OS X 10.7, or have a GUI redesign, or start using SSDs more widely. It will be quite futile trying to improve iPhone hardware for a while.

I'm pretty sure the people that work on the iPhone are not the same people that work on desktop computers, or software.

Funny story. I lived in a old-but nice neighborhood where the homes where very close together and looked very similar.

At least once every year or two I would have a drunk show up (around 2:30 A.M.) wondering why his key didn't work and what was I doing in his house. They would argue up and down how I was in their house even though the furniture in the front room didn't match. Threatening to call the law would usually sober them up enough to walk away and reconsider.

Made me a hero with the wife chasing away those "bad" people.

Letting drunk strangers into your house at 2:30 in the morning made you a hero with your wife?!

I'm sure someone can do so PS magic to figure out that number but that is beyond my ken. Though I'm sure it's not a CDMA. There just aren't enough chips to support two completely disparate network types in that device.

Note: If you look at iFixit's diagram of the 3GS logic board you see a different TriQuint chip for each of the UMTS bands. (site down or I'd link to the image)

PS: Wow there with the huge image. Forum etiquette please.

Dick Applebaum on whether the iPad is a personal computer: "BTW, I am posting this from my iPad pc while sitting on the throne... personal enough for you?"

To obtain one of the first iPhone 4 smartphones for teardown, Kyle of the iFixit team flew to Japan with a tent, planning to camp out in front of the Ginza Apple Store. FedEx ended up delivering early shipments to some users two days in advance, making the trip unnecessary.

great looking phone with features I want. now I need to get the wife on board so she won't flip when i buy the reserved item tomorrow.

That's a spot on image you've posted there..
It's important to use a good lookin hand model, ugly (yes, that includes hairy hands) hand model makes the unit look bad.. Well, in the case for Apple iPhone there, it looks just a little bit bad.. LOL

Impressive. I love iFixit teardowns. And it's always great to look at how much Apple (or any other company) can pack in there.

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Originally Posted by Rider

wow ! this is art .

Apple is pushing the limits of technology and its still so elegant .

Indeed, it is amazingly so compact..!
To all of other mobile manufacturers out there (yes, that includes you Google): "Dear lazy mobile manufacturers, this is how you should've made smartphone. We want slim and compact phone, please stop making fat and ugly looking phones you lazy dorks.."